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greatest and cheapest motor power, elec
tricity, irill be universally used. Some
idea may be gained ot the luporior power of
the new motors, by statins that it will then
only require three days to go to Europe, and
only two or three days will he consumed in
a railroad trip to California. The factory
that I run, which now consumes a great
quantity of coal daily, will need only a
small basketful of coal to keep it going all
day. Great factories that annually burn
thousands of tons of coal will be run on sev
eral tons, say two or three, or a few more
per annum, saving many thousands of dol
lars. The cost of living, the cost of goods,
the cost of nearly everything will be re
duced. It will cost nothing to make ice.
It will be a revolution, not to throw anyone
out of employment, not to ruin any industry,
but to benefit mankind and civilization in
general.
LOOKING FORWARD HOPEFULLT.
"I have never ceased to work on the prob
lem, therefore I have hope. It may be
years before I get niucn nearer the solution
and it may be directly. Certainly, I have
enough ambition to wish to solve the great
riddle. It is the problem of the age, but it
may be left for future generations to work
out. Perhaps greater minds in the centuries
to come will find it easy and laugh at our
ignorance. Is it not incredible that the
ancient Komans and Greeks, who had so
much culture, who were living in a high
state of civilization, possessed of wonderful
reasoning powers, quick to perceive, should
not know anything at all about electricity?
Their minds did not conceive or have any
inkling of the power of electricity, or, In
deed, what it was, and the only interpreta
tion is that they had their limitations in in
tellect. Nature did so much for them and
no more, and they could not go beyond their
ignorance.
"In a thousand years from now, or even
sooner, the people who exist then may have
minds that can see and understand easily
phenomena which are now a mystery to us.
Ve may be looked upon as an ignorant race
and what we have done considered nothing.
I believe in the higher development of the
human intellect, and it will only require
time for minds to become almost infinite.
"Ye now look upon the achievements we have
accomplished lu science as something be-
fond the comprehension of people who
ived several centuries ago. We may oc
cupy a relatively like position to those who
come after us centuries hence."
"Are you trying to discover anything be
sides the problem you have mentioned? "
DISCOVERY VERSUS INVENTION.
"I never try to discover anything be
cause I am an inventor. There "is a big dif
ference between a discovery and an inven
tion. Discovery is an accident and an in
vention is a creation. Mr. Bell discovered
the telephone; he did not invent it I in
Tented the talking part."
"Did you not discover how to send du
plex messages?"
"No, I did not. I simply invented or
studied out the system of sending duplex
messages. Invention requires work yes,
months and oiten years ot hard application.
Probably the inventor makes a discovery
that will enable him to complete his inven
tion. After long work perhaps some little
thing is discovered that gives the oase prin
ciple the inventor is seeking. But I never
think of making a discovery. A great
many people erroneously suppose that Sir
Isaac Newton discovered the law of gravi
tation. He never discovered, but he in
vented the law of gravitation. All that
romance about his sitting under the apple
tree and making the discovery by seeing an
apple fall reads beautifully, but it is not in
consonance with the .acts. He invented the
law of gravitation to explain certain phe
nomena of nature. Even alter he invented
the law of gravitation he was doubtful
about it, because some calculations he had
made in regard to the moon he believed to
be inaccurate. Sdme years afterward a
great mathematician worked out the propo
sition correctly, and so proved Sir Isaac
Newton's law of gravitation. Discoveries,
as a rule, are made by inventors, men who
spend their time trying to study out prob
lems." NOT A SCIENTIFIC MAN.
"Often en inventor is confounded with
scientists. I am not a scientific man, and
make no pretense in that direction. What
ever I attempt to invent, I have a specific
end in view viz., to apply it to commercial
uses. I am not a wizard, pouring over
books and weighing nice words of logio to
prove theories."
"Do you believe in scientific men?"
"Yes, in some of them, when it comes to
certain practical questions. But suppose,
for instance, that a committee of 25 great
Bavans should be appointed to investigate
and tell the hidden power of water and its
application. "Well, these learned gentle
men might write for half a century and pile
up volumes and yet we would not be able to
do any more with water than we do now.
No more would we know about it."
"It was reported once that you had in
vented a process to convert dirt into food?"
"That was an April fool joke. But great
strides are being made in that direction. In
Germany recently a scientific association
met and reported upon an invention that
will, at least, enable the world to produce
more edible stuff These chemists, headed
by Victor Meyer, who is now one of the
greatest living chemists and an American
boy, have discovered that food can be made
from wood. The cellulose in wood has the
same formula as sugar and starch and can
be converted into various edibles. And
these edibles, of course, will not be at all
unpalatable or unwholesome. People bare
wrong ideas about many of the edibles
made artificially. Many are just as healthy
as the natural product. Ton perhaps have
heard that butter is often made out of mud
from the bottom of the Thames river. It is
not actually from the mud, but from the
grease from sewers that gathers in the mud.
Why, oleomargarine is good, if not better,
and, to my ideas, decidedly more whole
some and purer tban butter, "if made in an
honest way. It is often made by dishonest
people and theieiore is impure. No doubt
some manufacturers make it better and
purer than others, but when bad people, in
order to get bigger profits, manufacture
cheap oleomargarine it forces others to
adopt the same dishonest method."
DANGER FROM ELECTRICITY.
"As the use of electricity becomes more
universal will not the death rate from acci
dents be accordingly increased?"
"No, but the death rate will be reduced
to a minimum, or rather there will be none
at all. There is no reason why death should
occur from coming in contact with electric
wires. Dishonesty, greed and recklessness
are really the causes for all the deaths that
occur from electric wires, and there is a
remedy. An electric company will deliber
ately use small, cheap copper wires that
carry a strong, deadly current, when for a
larger outlay of money large copper wires,
which do not carry deadly currents, could
be purchased. It is simply a matter of par
simony, for instance, a company will fre
quently use small copper wires that cost
?2,000,"knowiug full well that a deadly cur
lent will be in them, rather than pay $8,000
or 10,000 for large wires that would be
harmless. Yet there is a cry against the
deadly electric wires.
"Some of my wires are in lower Broadway
in constant use, and no ouc has ever been
hurt by them. Why? The wires are large
and will last safely until the twenty-fifth
cantury. As long as there are no laws regu
lating the size of electric wires of course
fatalities may be expected. Steam boilers are
inspected, and why electric wires are not is
a mystery to me. They could be policed, so
to speak, and made as safe as wagons run
ning along the streets. I say that the elec
tric wires I mean the small, cheap, high
tension wires ought to come under strict in
spection laws. It not, why deaths may be
expected to occur frequently.
WIRES SHOULD BE HARMLESS.
"When the men composing companies that
put in operation small and deadly wires grow
honest and th- world is nothing but an ely
sium of confidence, then no inspectors of
wires will be needed. A sarcastic echo an
swers when? Benjamin Franklin was in
deed right when he said that anything that
TT2B worth doing was worth doing well.
There is no reason why every city in the
Union should not have electric light com
panies using wires that are absolutely harm
ltS. Wh t i-p fl fvr nji- fl t.s" I .IpJ
lars when safety against loss of life ii in
sured. The cheap companies usually get the
job."
"Do you tblpk that lighting by elec
tricity is becoming more popular?"
"Certainly; because it is getting cheaper
every day and gives a better light than gas.
I do not mean to say that gas will be driven
out of use, for it will not. It will certainly
be done away with as lighting material, and
will be used chiefly to heat nothing more.
Already many gas companies have turned
their attention toward heating and suc
ceeded admirably. As a lighting material
gas smokes, but used in heating it does not.
The smoke from a gas store naturally goes
up the chimney, and gas as a fuel is much
cheaper and cleaner tban coal. There are
no ashes, no tronble, and none of the annoy
ances that como with handling coal.
ARTIFICIAL HEATING GAS.
"This is beginning to be the era of gas
heating. Look at the gas used in many
towns where natural gas has been discov
ered. Why cannot gas be made for heating
purposes just as reasonable in price as for
lighting? The cost is much smaller than
coal or wood heat and infinitely preferable.
Electricity is essentially adapted" for light
ing purposes and is superior in many re
spects. It is becoming cheaper every day.
Only 2 per cent of the coal is turned into
light. It is really a savint; to use gas for
heat, and within the past two years it has
become very popular as a heating medium."
"Have you ever thought of inventing a
flying machine, the motor force of which
would be electricity?"
"Yes, I have given some study to the
question and, of course, made some experi
ments in that direction. The bumblebee is
a fine model to study for a flying machine,
and the more I study that species ot a high
order of birds the more complex does the
flying machine problem appear. The bum
blebee flies by the aid of motor power alone.
It has no natural aid, but must depend upon
the rapid working of its wings to fly. There
is no wind and no feathers to assist the bee;
it has small wings, entirely out of propor
tion to its large, robust body, and when it
flies, the wings, as any observer can see, are
worked so rapidly it is impossible- to calcu
late the number of Hops to the minute.
THE MODEL IXTINQ MACHETE.
But the little bird must, perforce, be the
model to solve the flying machine puzzle,
because it is propelled simply by native
motive power. Could this bumblebee carry
the weight of another bee on its back is a
question often asked. Well, it cannot, and
even if a flying machine were invented on
its model it would not be capable of carry
ing any weight save its own. Nature has
done so much and failed to go any further.
"lou see, if wings were applied to man
they would have to be quite small in order
to be worked rapidly. Large wings could
not be moved rapidly enough, so the ques
tion ot flying would never be settled by
large wings, even if the motive propelling
power were a thousand times greater than
any yet conceived of. A man might have
wings constructed to carry bis weight, but
that would be all. Like the bumblebee, he
would be unable to do anything save carry
his own weight, and that by sheer force of
great power. Now, sea gulls have large
wings, entirely out of proportion with their
small bodies. But tbey have little motive
power, and are simply kept up like a kite
by the winds. If you will notice a gull you
will rarely see it work its wings,but it keeps
them outstretched and sails around the air
in a beautiful style. No flying machine
could skim about on the bosom of the wind
like the sea gull. All birds propel themselves
by flying and sailing. It is a natural action,
but man cannot acquire it, at least not now
in this day and generation, when so many
secrets of nature slumber before the savant's
eyes for years. We can only go back to
nature and pause and wait for years to un
derstand the phenomena that now seem a
mystery to our very finite minds.
doesn't hope to fly.
"I am not so sanguine about a flying
machine, because nature has her limita
tions. Anyway many of hey secrets lie
hidden from us and remain to enrichand
glorify some b'ight and wonderful era in the
future. Perhaps a century or so from now
the flying principle in man will be invented
or discovered. Things unheard and un
dreamed of may come to light in the future
and place us in th- category of being too
stupid to imagine an i much les to invent
them. But I have nothing to do with the
future. If there ever will be a flying
machine capable of carrying not only one
man but other weight with it, I, at present,
cannot conceive it. There are certain fixed
principles in nature we cannot ignore. Wc
cannot pull ourselves through space by our
own boot straps, and we cannot leap 'from
the top of a house witohut climbing on lop
first,"
., "Why not take the bumblebee model and
try it?"
"Nature made the bumblebee with motive
power enough to carry its own weight and
no more. Why it did not give the bumble
bee more power I cannot explain; it is be
yond the comprehension of my very finite
mind. Man was not constructed with
wings, and so he has to wait and solve the
problem which nature gave to the bumblebee
and birds."
"Do you think the phonograph will ever
be universally used?"
FUTURE OF THE PHONOGRAPH.
"It is already becoming indispensable to
hundreds of great business houses. I know
that many men, as soon as they use it, de
clare they had rather talk to their sten
ographers, but if any man will give the
phonograph three days' trial, he will not
part with it. I know a number of men who
at first did not like it, but now they con
stantly use it and save three or four hours of
valuable time each day. The business man
can get down to his office and talk off enough
in half or one hour to his phonographs to
keep five or six typewriters busy three or
four hours. If that is not a wonderful time
saver, I would like to see it beaten. It is all
well and good for a nu: to say that he can
dictate rapidly tc a stenographer, but no
matter how fast he talks to a phonograph, it
is all there, and any one can hear and write
it out afterward.
"I predict that phonographs will entirely
change the present system of answering
business letters and writing communica
tions. It is one of those inevitable things
that prejudice and a lingering desire not to
adopt a new method cannot affect Look
how the telephone is used now, and how it
facilitates business. Well, the phonograph
will soon be in vogue, and people will won
der why they had never used them before.
It is one of the greatest labor-saving ma
chines." "Do j-ou believe that the present style of
telegraphy will soon be done away with?"
NEW ORDER IN TELEGRAPHY.
"Yes, but not until the old timers have
disappeared. The operators now have a
deep seated prejudice against any invention
that will simplify telegraphy. But some of
the inventions have already been made, and
it is only a question of time when a man can
rush into a telegraph office, scratch off a
note to his wife in Chicago and the exact
duplicate of his note will be delivered over
the wire to his wife. This will not be all by
any means.but maps, pictures (newspaper
pictures) will be transmitted promptly by
wire. These new inventions will be for the
coming generation to see in practical use.
The old stagers will fight, of course, to keep
the new order of things from coming rapidly
into practical use, because it will interfere
with their occupation."
The Wizard's day is a long one. Some
times he refuses to see visitors, and before
he married his second wife he often forgot
to stop work lor his meals. Thus his health
became impaired, and, although naturally
of splendid physique, he began to feel the
rebellion of nature, Mrs. Edison has rem
edied all this. She allows her lord and
master to work as hard as he pleases until 1
o'clock every day, and then she sends her
carriage to bring him to lunch. The family
consists of the Wizard and his wife, two
boys and a little girl, the latter the child of
nis second marriage. Mr. Edison's eldest
daughter is studying mnsic in Germany.
THE WIZARD'S LUNCHEON HOUR.
What a jolly lunch houritisl Sometimes
there are a few guests, and if not the family
sit down together and for an hour there is
animated conversation to aid digestion. .Mrs.
Edison is a beautiful woman, about 24 years
is a fine talker, has flashing hazel eyes, a
crown oi brown hair nnd a clear olive com
plexion. She kuows very well how to drets,
and looks charming in some simple French
made gown of soft stuff. The house that
they live in is a "handsome structure of
brick and wood. There is an air of comfort
on all sides, and one of the most noticeable
things about it is the profusion of plants
and flowers In every room. There are plenty
of cozy nooks in it and a dozen handsomely
furnished rooms, with open fireplaces and
many of the windows of stained glass, let
ting in a flood ot varied colored sunlight.
If you should happen to be present at
night you would be astonished to see the
house lighted up by the electric light It
can be compared to nothing better, perhaps,
than to a fairy's palace. Thereis a library
stocked with rare books, splendid paintings
and etchings on the walls, and in the dining
room a magnificent collection of silver and
crystal. While it is a stylish house, every
thing has been sacrificed for comfort After
lunch Mr. and Mrs. Edison sometimes play
billiards for an hour or so, or the wizard
may lie in one of his hammocks swinging
near his conservatory, with a volume of
Dante in his hand. Sometimes he catches a
10 minutes' nap and awakes like a giant re
freshed. CHICKEN RAISING HIS HOBBY.
Adjoining his house is a poultry yard, for
raising fancy breeds of chickens is one of
Mr. Edison's hobbies. There are a number
of greenhouses and abundant pasture for the
Aldemey cows and horses. At 6 o'clock
Mr. Edison stops work and goes to dinner.
The evening is spent in a drive or in chat
ting with some of the callers who constantly
overrnn the place. There is no restriction
put upon visitors. A great many hundred
curiosity seekers visit Llewellyn Park just
to catch a glimpse of the inventor. Some
times they succeed and many times they do
not, for Edison is only human after all and
his nature is a bit perverse. By midnight
the house is in darkness, except on some
special occasion when the light burns long
in the library, and then it may be known
that the great inventor has something on his
mind and is trying to solve an intricate
problem. Bat as a rule his life is methodi
cal. He goes to bed in good season and gets
up betimes.
He works hard all day and sleeps like a
plowboy at night He seldom goes away
from his home, and those who want to see
him on important matters mnst journey out
to him. He dislikes publicity very much.
He has never been seen at a great public
banquet in New York or elsewhere, and he
finds little to interest him in the theater or
opera, although he is a great lover of music.
In addition to all his other accomplishments,
he plays very prettily on the piano and often
passes an hour in that amusement Per
haps while his fingers are wandering over
the ivory keys his mind is in another land,
where the shadows become realities and
where, by the touch of his magic wand, he
may bring forth some great invention that
will benefit the entire hnmanracel
He will be wise, indeed, who could say
what Edison will do next I
Wallace Weston.
SHOOTING CANVAS-BACKS,
An Early Moraine Scene at the Month of
the Susquehanna In Maryland Hot a
Shot is Fired Before 6 O'clock In the
Horning.
New Tort Tribune.
It is a little before 6 o'clock in the morn
ing, an early winter morning, at the mouth
of the Susquehanna. The postoffice nearest
is Havre de Grace, Md. Peace and quiet
reign on land and water, 'save for the rustle
and chatter of the wild fowl. And what a
host of wild fowl, to be surel Red-heads
and broad-bills and teal; marsh-fowl and
brant and canvas-hacks. Some swim in
well-ordered flotillas on the open water.
Some are diving and dredging in the mud
near the shore. Some are flying overhead
in marshalled lines. Some are busy amid
the grasses and sedges that fringe the banks.
Some are seeking the aromatic wild celery
beds and gorging themselves upon the suc
culent herbage. These last are the canvas
backs, the epicures among birds and the
favorite prey of epicures among beings of a
higher order.
There is little to be heard but the multi
tudinous clamor of the birds and the faint
splashing of the waves, sounding eerie
enough in the half-light of early morning.
But now and then there is the faintest dip
of a muffled paddle, or the splash of an un
wary foot. For the last half hour gray fig
ures have been gliding hitherward through
dusk and mist, booted to the hips and girt
about with cartridge hells and crowned with
caps or helmets; bearing long, double-barreled
guns and stealing across the meadows
and through the tall grasses to the waterside
as though preparing an ambush for a deadly
foe. One by one they sink into places of
safe hiding, and as the hour ot 5 draws neir
all havs vanished from sight, behind the
grass and sedge, or plaited wattles, or
painted screens.
Crackl goes a gun away off yonder, on
that grassy point that juts into the stream.
It is fired by some one whose wateh is a
trifle fast, for it still lacks a minute of the
hour of 5. But while the faint smoke
wreaths are yet curling upward, crackl
crackl from 100 neighboring ambuscades,
like prodigiously multiplied echoes of the
first shot. The grasses seem spitting jets of
flame, and the retreating mists of morning
are chased skyward by spirals of pale blue
smoke, and 1,000 startled wings flap in
mid-air, and many a fowl falls whirling
from the flight amid scattering featheis and
drifting down, and there are tramplings of
feet in the shallow water and the splashing
of muffled oars, and sea and shore are echo
ing to 1,000 deadly shots, and the day's
great slaughter has begun.
This is the daily scene during the season
prescribed by law from the 1st of November
to the 1st of April. The law does not permit
shooting before 6 o'clock in the morning.
But every true sportsman seeks to begin
promptly at that hour. So, whether the
night be fine or rain or snow be falling,
they turn out before daylight and forsake
their comfortable beds for the wet and the
cold of the river and bay. And when
they return home at the end of the
day it is their pride to bear upon
their backs or piled high in their
boats huge masses ot black and green and
brown and red, the feathered trophies of the
hunt Not always, however, does the largest
pile of slaughtered fowls cause the greatest
satisfaction. There is a law of qnality as
well as ot quantity here as elsewhere. A
brace of the shy and comparatively scarce
canvas-backs will furnish better cause for
pride than half a dozen of the commoner
and coarser redheads. Those sportsmen
who have an eye to distinction, therefore,
seek the wild celery fields and let the grass
feeding flocks alone. Every year the wild
celery becomes less abundant, and in equal
ratio the birds that feed upon it and incor
porate its spicy flavor into their own flesh
become less plentiful. But the flocks of
plebian fowl know no diminution. No
matter how great the slaughter this year,
next year will see the gunning as profitable
C0ACHWG KAYOS GHAUT.
Ward McAllister Has Him in Hand and Pro
poses to Polish Him Up Nicely.
Philadelphia Press.
Ward McAllister has taken Mayor Grant
under his aristocratic protection, and with
one or two other friends and some remark
ably fine specimens of repeating fowling
pieces they have gone down to the Chesa
peake Bay region to shoot ducks on a pre
serve. McAllister's intimacy with Mayor Grant
is a comparatively recent development It
is probably a delight to the Mayor, whose
social aspirations have become very aristo
cratic since he became chief magistrate of
the city. In his earlier days the Mayor
found his chief social entertainment in
going about in a flannel shirt and belted
trousers at the picnics of uptown chowder
clubs. Secretary Whitney has given him
some considerate drill in social require
ments, and now that McAllister and he are
chummy, it is quite likely that the Mayor,
as an eligible batchelor, will become a con
spicuous fiaure at the Patriarchs' ball next
vintcr.
THE PITTSBURG- DISPATCH,-
WOOING
HEIRESS
One of Howard Fielding's young
Friends Tfells His Experience
in Lore and Poverty.
PATIENCE AT THE SEASHORE.
At First it Was tbe Honey, but After
Awhile it Was the Girl That
Wat) the Attraction.
AN OUTING SUIT FOB N0TEMBEB.
How a Lightning Chisgi Act is Clothing Wis Ac
eenjllilied is a Dark Hillwiy.
rWBlTIEH TOE THB DIS1MTCH.3
The last time TEeard from Jack Hartley
he was going ;o marry an heiress. I had
his word for it 1 should have preferred
hers. However, there was a chance that the
news might be true, and I rejoiced to hear
it, because I had a Btrong affection for Jack
and a large bundle of his L O. TJ's. The
latter I still retain.
Aside from ray interest in Jack as a
friend and debtor, I had reason to hope that
his matrimonial venture would prove a suc
cess, financially. It was I who advised
him to choose marriage as a career. He
could not lie steadily enough for tbe law
nor brilliantly enough for journalism. He
knew just enough to be a doctor but couldn't
cover up the lact and look wise. In
short, I did not think he was likely to suc
ceed in the more honorable professions.
But for love-muking, Jack was wonderfully
endowed. He had a handsome face with
eyes that took on a tender expression at the
sight of a pretty girl or a 810 gold piece or
a pie.
HE HAD YEARNING EYES.
In fact, it didn't make much difference
what it was. Jack's eyes were always
yearning and tnnder. He was born so. But
if tbe girl didn't see him looking at the pie
or at some other girl, she might easily be
persuaded that he loved her alone. Then
he had one of those figures which even a
tailor can fit. Why, my clothes looked so
much better on him than they did on me
that it was almost a pleasure to lend them to
him.
I hadn't seen him since the early spring
until I met him on the street last Thurs
day. It was a cold day. I had to go to
New Jersey, and the thermometer, also,
was very low down. It was on my way
to the ferry that I met Jack. He had a
summer overcoat buttoned np to the chin.
Used to Hake a Model of Jack.
Thin, and somewhat gaudy pantaloons, a
pair of tan-colored tennis shoes, and a light,
soft, felt hat completed his visible attire.
He ran up to me hastily.
"Howdy, old boy," said he, "don't say a
word. I know all about it I look like an
early crocus on the morning after the great
blizzard, but please don't refer to it. Lend
me 50."
IT WAS A SUDDEN SHOCK.
"Gently, Jack," said I, "remember I'm
subject to heart disease, and the mention of
a large sum of money suddenly like that
might bereave my family. I have 65
cents."
"Then lend me half a dollar."
"Can't do it, old man; I'm sorry, but
"Five cents, Howdy, for heaven's sake,
unless you want these yellow shoes to drive
me craay."
"But you can't get a new pair of shoes for
6 cents," I said.
"Of course not; but I'm going to have
these blacked. They won't shine much,
but they'll be disguised, and that's what I
care about most. She's seen 'em before."
"She, the heiress?" I asked hopefully.
"Shall I congratulate you, Jack?"
"No, confound it, congratulate her. I
didn't win her. Lend me that nickel and
I'll tell you all about it while my shoes are
being brought up to date."
He climbed into a convenient chair, and
the artist went to work, while Jack told his
story.
A TALE 0! LOVE.
"It was last June," said he, "when I made
up my mind that I couldn't stand poverty
any longer. Poverty I If I could ever have
worked up to the level of honest poverty, it
wouldn't have been so bad. But I was $500
beyond poverty, on the wrong side. And
my salary was $15 a weekl Howdy, it was
enough to drive a man to suicide. In fact,
living any longer at my boarding house
would have been tantamount to suicide of
an aggravated type. At this critical mo
ment in my life I first heard the name of
Myrtie Leigh."
"The heiress?"
"Yes; the heiress. I confess that I thought
only of her money. I had never seen her. I
supposed she was like other women. But,
sir, if one word that I speak of her in telling
you tbia story, or one thought of her in my
soul, now or at any time, fails in the most
perfect respect for her, may I be, may I
be , may that shoe return to its original
colorl" and in his deep emotion he waved
the blacked one in the air.
SUMMER OK THE BEACH;
"But when I first heard of her wealth all
in her own right, too," he resumed; "and
learned that she was to spend the summer
at Great Beach, Me., with nobody to look
out for her but a mother from whom she
could not possibly have inherited that sound
good sense of hers which afterward stood so
confoundedly in my way when I' heard of
all this I resolved to go down there and win
her heart and hand. Yes; and especially
her money. Well, of course the primary
consideration was an outfit of summer
clothes. I raised every cent I could. I
mortgaged myself body and soul to anybody
-who could be'deluded into a belief that the
security was worth anything. Ibought the
stunningest well, sir, just look at that
vest!"
He opened his overcoat, and the "blazer"
which I discovered beneath it, and showed
me a vest that was more beautiful than a
summer sunset, and as far out of season, in
November.
'I've been selling off 'most of my ward
robe," said he, "but I couldn't part with
that"
"When you sold your clothes, why didn't
you buy somethine for winter?" I asked.
A STURDY OLD UNCLE.
"I never thought of it," said he. "She
wasn't coming to New York till November.
and I thought that something would surely
turn up to help' me out before this time.
I've got a rich uncle who is 98, and an in
valid. He's always worst in the fall, espe
cially ii it's cold and damp. Have you
noticed anything the matter with the
weather lately?"
"No, S haven't," said I, "it's been Very
mild."
"But I had n ornt ttmn this summer'. I
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER- 16,
got in with the best set at Great Beach
easily enough, and met Miss Leigh. The
stories they told down there abont her
money kept me awake nights, thinking up
schemes for being agreeable. At first I
was much encouraged; she is such a kind,
gentle, sympathetic girl. I worked the
sympathy dodgefor all it was worth in
vented noble aspirations every day, and
new kinds of blight to kill 'em with. She
was so truthful, so absolutely and entirely
honest that it was almost no trouble at all to
lie to her."
A CONSCIENCE SHIVER.
He paused and shivered. It may have
been the cold, but I gave his conscience the
benefit of the doubt, and thought the better
of him for it
"At the end of a month," he continued,
"I was ready to propose. I had carefully
prepared a way to be led into it inadvert
ently. One hasty word was to reveal my
secret. Then I was to call myself a pre
sumptuous beggar.and offer to take the next
boat, whether it was going my way or not
I believe if I had made that bluff and it
had failed, I shonldn't have waited for any
boat I should have started right across
tbe Atlantic Ocean on foot. But, old
man, I didn't make it. I couldn't. The
very day that I had set for this proposal
I fell in love with her in good earnest,
or, rather, I perceived that I was in love
with her. She wasn't a girl to strike a man
like me suddenly. Her beauty was too
sweet and natural.
EDUCATED IN BEAUTY.
"My taste for beauty had been educated,
or rather depraved, by walking around New
York. I'd cot to thinking that a woman, to
be beautiful, must be pencilled so black-and
powdered so white that her face looks like
a crayon sketoh on the bottom of a soup
plate. She wasn't that kind. And when
my better judgment came to life again, and
I saw her as she really was, every other face
in the world went into total eclipse. I saw
how good she was too; and when all this
came over me, I could no more have opened
my mouth to say I loved her, than a man
with the lockjaw could bite a big apple.
Be Took Off Hy Overcoat.
"I was her slave after that You should
have seen me rowing her around, the bay in
the blazing sun, or carrying her sketching
implements and chair up hill on a hot day.
You know that when a woman goes to sketch
she takes twelve times as much stuff as she
can possibly use. She always has a paint
box with enough coloring matter in it to
paint a dozen barns. Then she used to
make a model of me. I had to Bit on a log
holding a little brat in my arms while she
got us both down on canvas in about four
hours. She wanted the brat especially be
cnuse he was so 'delightfully dirty,' as she
called it
HE HELD HIS PEACE.
"Two months of that, old man, and not a
word of love have I said to her. I have
withstood moonlight in a canoe, and banjo
duets on the shores of lonely islands, and
the sweetest confidence that ever a woman
misplaced. And I have watched my pilof
borrowed money fade away and have
thought of the inexhaustible boodle old
Leigh must have left, and yet I have held
my peace.
"Well, sir, at last I had to come back to
town, leaving my heart behind me. I also
left my trunk, but not with her. If she
should find it out!" Jack fairly turned
green at the thought "I made the landlord
promise never to reveal my secret I told
him all the lies that had been foaming and
seething inside of me ever since I had
ceased to tell her anything but the troth.
What few winter clothes I have in the
world aro in that trunk; and these gay and
diaphanous robes are getting more and
more conspicuous every day. I intended
that they should excite remark, and in one
way my success has been beyond my antici-
Eations. Do you suppose I could have this
at blacked, too?"
J Went Over Into Cheerless Jersey.
"I don't know. Jack," said I, "but
haven't you any plans?"
JACK HAD PLANS.
"Certainly," he replied, "I must work
and save. I nm getting $18 a week now, and
there are 19 attachments on my salary. I
have made a calculation which shows that if
ever I get out of debt, and I don t lose my
situation nor get sick nor spend more tban is
absolutely necessary, my savings will war
rant me in marrying on the Fourth of July
in the year 2890. 1 firmly believe that Uncle
Joe will live to that date.if I do."
"Why aren't you at work to-day?" I
asked.
"I am attending my grandmother's
funeral," said he. "In other words, Miss
Leigh is coming to-day. She has been in
Philadelphia. She will come over that
ferry; will pass up this street I must see
her; though I dare not speak to her in this
scarecrow rig. She will ride, of course, and
I mav heavens, Howdy, here1 she come?!
Walking, don't you see her? What shall I
do? I can't stand this. Howdy, if you love
me; it you even pity me; lend me that coat.
Here this will do."
IT WAS HIGHWAY EOBBEKY.
He crowded me into a doorway, and be
fore I realized what he was about he had
pulled off my overcoat and his own. Then
his "blazer" and my undercoat followed.
He was inside my garments in a second, and
had started down the street at a rapid pace.
The next instant I saw him lift my hat to a
sweet-faced girl and her mother; and I knew
by the look in the eyes that met his for a
moment that he had won already a prize far
better than the money he had sought. I
also reflected with satisfaction that he would
get that, too, some day, if his friends' ward
robe didn't give out.
Then I put on his "blazer" and his thin
overcoat, and his little white hat, and went
over into cheerless Jersey, where I caught
a cold that will probably keep me away
from the wedding tif it occurs during this
yesr. HOWARD FIELDING.
1890.
LIARS OF THE TIME.
Truth Fares Very Badly in Society,
Trade and Profession.
WHAT THE PUBLIC COHDOHES.
Men. Honest in Almost Everything: lse
False in Politics.
THE SIGNS POINT TO IHPE0YEMENT
tWBITTXN TOE THE DISPATCH.
In one of Kant's books he says: "The
highest violation of the duty of man to him
self, considered as a moral being, is a de
parture from truth, or lying. A lie is the
abandonment, and, as it were, the annihi
lation of the dignity of a man."
"Liars are the cause of all the sins and
crimes in the world" was the judgment of
one of the most famous teachers of philoso
phy and morality among the ancient Stoics.
To speak the truth is a boundless duty im
posed upon all mankind by all the doctrines
andcreeds of Christendom, and pagandom
as well, whether represented by Confucius
Buddha or Mohammed. But "Lord, Lord,
how the world is given to lying." Social
lies, professional lies, political lies and
malicious lies. Evryone condemns lying,
and yet there come times in everybody's
life when it would take a most mighty
struggle to tell the truth.
"WHTE LIES IN SOCIETY.
Especially in society are what are called
white lies common. Women err greatly
in this respect without intending to be de
ceitful. They are so given to gush that they
exaggerate far beyond the truth. They kiss
some of their mere acquaintances with as
great a show of affection as their best and
most intimate friends. They make one
whom they may cordially dislike as welcome
as if their souls had been longing for her
presence. Courtesy is a pleasant thing and
good manners should never be lost sight of,
but an exaggerated show of kissing and
sympathy where neither love nor respect
exists is assuredly a sort of deception.
Another way iu which women lie in the
drawing room is inj'treaklng notoriously
bad men with the same courtesy and
cordiality they would extend to gentlemen
of highest character. This is one of the
sorriest revelations of fashionable life in
this country. It is not only an illustration
of lying, but is a show of snobbery that is
shameful, when the most disreputable
owners of foreign titles can find a warmer
welcome among the women of society than
their own countrymen of greater intelligence
and virtne. A duke so dissolute and de
graded that he finds the doors of respecta
bility closed to him at home, comes here
and is wined and dined and feted and run
after by those who claim to represent the
best society of America. How a title
weakens judgment, whitewashes sin, and
wraps a mantle of grace over vice has been
shown scores of times in this democratic
eountry.
LIES THAT ABE CONVENTIONAL.
For social convenience women and men
as well shirk truthfulness. They tell what
they call "white lies" because they Bay
Bociety cannot geton without them. It would
not do, it is thought, to express in words
what they really feel. Compliments, some
body says are really lies; but when every
body knows they are, nobody is hurt There
are many conventional expressions oi
courtesy that people are taught to use and
are wholly understood that cannot properly
be called lies because there is evidently no
attempt at making a false impression. In
Washington it has become the custom for
callers to inquire, "Is Mrs. Blank receiving
to-day?" The answer is plain yes, or no, as
Mrs. Blank has ordered. "Not receiving" is
precisely the same thing as the old "Not at
home" about which so many people have
Bcruples.
But while there are found sticklers upon
forms of words there are many whose whole
social life is a lie. These live as people of
wealth when they cannot pay their honest
debts. These are arrayed sumptiuously in
purple and finelinenwhiletheircreditors are
suffering for their money. These sit in the
high seats and do not pay their pew rent
These are holy and devout on Sundays and
saints' days, but they prove themselves liars
and hypocrites in society and business.
These make a parade of their high birth and
blue blood, who really had no granfathera
to speak of, ns gossip goes. Such small
vanity and lying only exposes them to ridi
cule and contempt
WOMEN LIE MOBE THAN MEN.
Lying, it is said, is more a sin among
women than men. Children are more given
to it than grown people. Why? Women
held in subjection by coercion lie to keep
out of trouble, just as children lie through
fear of punishment Truth is fostered by
love and liberty and confidence. "A lie is
born of weakness on one side and tyranny
on the other." If a man acts the bully at
home, a woman with her wits about her will
adopt the -policy of General Grant, and em
ploy strategy. The victories of both love
and war are won by lying.
But while with English speaking people
lying is held, at least in theory, as disgrace
ful and dishonorable, the French are not
nearly so scrupulous. A French woman, it
is said, can lie with such cool, clear-eyed
effrontery as to seriously discount Annanias
and Sapphira. This is due doubtless to ed
ucation. A writer on tbe schools and text
books of France says that in their manual
of morality "conscience is distinguished as
right or erroneous, certain or doubtful. A
distinction is also made between true truth,
doubtful truth and false truth." Lies are
divided into three classes: The prejudicial
lie which is wrong in proportion to the in
jury it causes; the officious lie, which is
venial because it does not cause grave
trouble, and the pleasant lie which of course
is whiter still. Mental restrictions, equivo
cations and expressions which can stand two
interpretations, are allowable. Under such
a system of morality it might be supposed
that many of the people in this conntry had
been trained, rather than that whioh con
demns all lying as an abomination.
A BESSIE BBAMBLEISM.
Without intending it, the children in the
Sunday schools are led to lying. They are
induced to say they would rather give their
money' to the heathen than spend it them
selves, when everybody knows the majority
of them are lying. They are led to say they
believe many things, when they have no't
the remotest idea of what they mean. A
minister's son tells how they were
catechised when he went to church: "Boys,
would you be willing to go to hell if it was
God's will?" and every little liar said, "Yes,
sir."
Then children learn lying and hypocrisy
from parents, and teachers, and friends.
When they grow up the habit has been ac
quired. Our spiritual pastors, however
carefully they may have been instructed in
this matter in the seminaries, can occasion
ally be caught up in saying what they know
is not true. The doctors lie professionally
with a looseness and abandon that simply
staggers the common mind. Some of them
have no scruples whatever as to deceiving
their patients and their friends. They per
sist in putting up their prescriptions in an
unknown tongue so that people can be more
easily deceived, and more effectively fleeced
by the druggists. They seem to have no
conscience as to fooling silly women and
credulous men into the taking of nostrums,
which they know are of no earthly good.
A BUSINESS 'WITH LAWYERS.
The lawyers just pause and consider how
they are given to lying as a matter of busi
ness. The most of them have a complete
mastery of every variety ot casuistry ant,in-genious-falsifying.
Every power in then! is
bent to deceive the jury, even when they
have absolute knowledge that their client is
guilty of the crimecharged. Such unscru
pulous lawyers hesitate not to employ any
trickery to misrepresent the facts, to beat
down honest witnesses, to make wrong ap
pear right Dr. Arnold, of Bugby, it is
aid, was so proioundly Impressed with tbe
moral danger to whioh a lawyer was ex
posed, that he used to advise his pupils not
to study law. JIacaulay raised the ques
tion in England as to whether a man with a
wig on his head and a gown on his back was
justified in doing for a gninea what as a
private citizen, without these decorations, he
would consider wicked and infamous to do
for an empire.
This qnestion, however, has never yet
been settled. One of the most famous
lawyers in this country has said that
"lawyers make half their living by lies."
But after all there are honest lawyers, men
of high moral principle who consider it
dishonorable to lie, even professionally, for
a fee.
LIES IN TRADE.
That there is a vast deal of lying in busi
ness requires no proof. The shoddy goods,
the short measures, the tricks of the trade,
so-called, the cheats by which paying cus
tomers are made to make np the shortages
of the "dead beats," give full evidence. The
only remedy for these business lies is for all
to trade only with reputable dealers, and
thus impress the old proverb that honesty
is the best policy.
But while all lying is mean and base and
despicable, the worst lies are the malicious
lies the lies which injure character and
wreck happiness. Slander is the sum ot all
wickedness. A liar who would rob his
neighbor of his good name would commit
any crime in the litany from which he prays
to be delivered. Strange as it may seem,
there are many honest and honorable men
who would not take a dollar that was not
their own for the world, who would not say
a mean word of anybody, who are just and
upright in their dealings, and yet whose
consciences, when it comes to politics, sud
denly sag a little, and they rejoice in the
most infamous abuse of the opposition. It
seems to be a principle with politicians that
the end justifies tbe means. The "awful
whoppers" told and published in the last
campaign show that even as in David's day
it might be said "all men are liars" when
it comes to politics.
CUEING POLITICAL LYING.
However,the last campaign also exhibited
an improvement in this matter of political
slander. Pattison's swift suits for libel
show how these can be met hereafter. Judge
Gordon's prompt action in the courts brought
prompt apolozy for political slander. These
are precedents for honest candidates to fol
low that will do something to check the un
scrupulous manufacturers of political lies.
In the matter of love men, in general, feel
themselves privileged to do an immense
amount of lying. During courtship false
hood is easy; felicity is assured; paradise is
at hand.
At lovers' cerjuries
They nay Jove laughs.
And what wonder?
But while it will be granted that the
world is given to lying, it must be admitted
that conscience, common sense and honesty
play a large part in every life, or bow could
it keep on improving as it does. "Shuffling
may serve for a time, but truth will most
certainly carry it in the long rnn."
Bessie Bramble.
OBAHTS BEFUBXICANISH.
Fact That Disprove the Popular Belief
That He Was Once a Democrat
New Yorfc .Press.
The prevailing belief that General Grant
was once a Democrat is dispelled by ex
Governor Stone, of Iowa, who- relates that
he had a conversation with General Grant
about polities shortly after the surrender at
Appomattox, in which Grant told him all
about his political antecedents and his
tory. General Grant came of Whig stock
and learned his first lessons in politics from
Henry Clay. As a hoy he was literally
bound up in Clay, and with the rest of his
family mourned over his repeated defeats
for President None of his family, so far
as Grant knew, ever voted a Democratic
ticket. He himself voted for Buchanan in
1856, because he disliked Fremont At a
later period General Grant told Governor
Stone that he had voted in St. Louis for
Chauncey L Filley for Mayor, and in Illi
nois for General Jonn M. Palmer for Gov
ernor, which made up the whole record of
his votes up to 1880. I do not know if Filley
was running for Mayor as a Bepublican,
but it is my impression that he was, and
Palmer, although now a Democrat, was
then a Bepublican.
KB. TRATTT'B PB0PHECY.
After All the Talk He Has Proved Himself
Quite a Prophet.
.New Yort Press. 1
George Francis Train has come back from
his transcontinental tour as an advertise
ment for Tacoma, and may be seen in his
old haunt, the lobby of the Continental
Hotel, on Broadway, at various hours. He
looks somewhat subdued and more somber
than when he went off to rough it around
the world. It is a singular thing that, al
though he has been regarded as a crank and
as halt crazy,- his predictions made 15 and
20 years ago about Tacoma are coming to
fulfillment
I can remember articles he wrote and sent
to papers over the country fully that length
of time ago, in which he said that Tacoma
was the coming great port of the Pacific
coast, and was destined to be a metropolis
as great as or greater than San Francisco.
Tacoma has not reached that size yet, but
has made such progress that the prediction
is no longer regarded as wild impossi
bility. WHY HE ISNT P0PU1AB.
An Instance in Which Visiting; Cards Nearly
Rained a Minister.
Boston Traveller.!
It is a common saying that yon can judge
a man by his visiting card. A lately-arrived
rector not ten miles from Boston left
his cheap, printed card at the house of one
ot his parishioners, and hi3 neatly-engraved
one at another's. The houses were respect
ively in unfashionable and fashionable
quarters of the city. But the parishioners
happened to be cousins. They met, tbey
compared cards as women will and that
rector now wonders why he is growing in
disfavor with some of his parishioners.
JOHH BOYLE CBETLLY'S CEATE.
One of Nature's Monoliths Will Mark the
Poet and Patriot's nesting Place.
Nature has provided for John Boyle
O'Beilly a tomb worthy of the man. On
the highest point of Holyhood Cemetery,
Brookline, says the Pilot, there crops out a
ledge oi rock whose base is the foundation
walls of the earth. Countless sons ago, the
glacial plane passed over this ledge, cutting
its iron face and leaving a polished sur
face which the rains and frosts of
thousands of years have hardly dimmed.
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Grinding its way slowly over the reef, the
mighty glacier left its indelible imprint be
hind, and left also an equally enduring me
mento of its passage a giant boulder of
conglomerate rock, 15 feethigh and, roughly
speaking, about 12 feet square 75 tons of
weather-stained, time-delying, eternal rock.
It stands on the crest of- the picturesque
height, a landmark conspicuous above all
else in the neighborhood, solitary, massive
and majestic. It is to be the tombstone of
John Boyle O'Beilly. No mark, save a
single tablet let into its face, will be allowed
to mar tbe severe simplicity of tbe noble
monolith; bat this monument will stand for
all time, imperishable as the fame of the
man who iltwpt bsjidt It
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THREE CIGAES A DAY.
Doctor Hammond Says Most Men Can
Stand That linen Tobacco.
CHEWING ALWAYS DBTRIMEBTAL.
Pipes Ara Mora Dangerous Than th.8 Weed
Dona Up in foils.
THE IMMEDIATE EFFECTS OP EXCESS
rWBITTIN IOB TUS DISPATCH.!
There may be cases in which the use of
tobacco is beneficial, but I am inclined to
think they are exceedingly few, and, ia
fact, tbey may be entirely disregarded in
our consideration ot the influence of the
weed on mankind. Doubtless there ara
instances in which the soothing effect of a
cigar is desirable, and tbere are others in
which smoking immediately after a meal
increases the amount of gastric jnice se
creted, and hence facilitates the digestive
process, but there are so many more cases in
which tobacco instead of soothing irritates,
and a still greater number in which, so far
from facilitating digestion, it positively re
tards that function, that humanity would
be none the loser if tobacco as a soother of a
ruffled spirit and as a prod for the secretion
of the gastric juice were to be utterly swept
from the face of the earth.
We have other and more effectual methods
of quieting the agitated mind and much bet
ter stimulators of digestion which are in no
way harmful; for although tobacco may do
some good to some people, there are prob
ably lew who use it in whom the injurious
effects do not more tban counterbalace what
ever good may be derived from it.
LITTLE DANGER IN 1IODEEATION.
Still it may, I think, be. asserted without
fear of contradiction that the distinctiy.del
eterious results ensuing from the moderate
use of tobacco by adults are infrequent la
making this declaration X desire to be un
derstood as laying particular stress on the
words moderate and adult?, and also as
limiting the employment of tobacco solely
to the smoking ot cigars. Chewing is a,
thoroughly filthy and disgusting habit, and.
moreover is injurious, no matter how moder
ately it may be indulged in. It takei away
from the system the saliva, one of the chief
digestive juices, and it vitiates the otber se
cretions of the mouth.
Cigarettes are rarely, if ever.used without
the smoke being inhaled into the lungs, and
the consequences of this practice ore almost
invariably deplorable, owing to the great
amount of nicotine which is absorbed into
the system. As to snuff, the taking of to
bacco through tbe nose 'is now so infre
quently practiced that it may be dismissed,
without further discussion. It is almost ai
dirty a habit as chewing.and in a very short
time so impairs the integrity of the mucous
membrane of the nose as to alter the voice
and induce catarrh, and ultimately destroy
the sense of smell. Dipping has also pretty
much gone out of vogue. It consisted ia
applying the snuff to the teeth by some kind!
of brush, usually one made from a hickory
twig.
PIPES WORSE THAN CIGARS.
The objection to the best kind of pipes is,
that very much more of the nicotine and oiL
of the tobacco are absorbed into the system,
than is the case with cigars. With common'
pipes, especially those with short stems, the
degree of irritation which is excited in the;
lips and interior of the mouth is far greater
than that resulting from tobacco used ia any
other form.
Now to return to cigars. One good cija
smoked after each meal is what ma.v be
called moderate nse, and ran rarely afflict
any damage to the system. Tbe exceptions
occur in those persons of peculiar organiza
tion, impressionable and easily disturbed by
stimulants, sedatives or narcotics. There
are others, as we know, in whom a.
cup of tea or coffee or a saucer of strawber
ries causes derangement of some one or morn
organs of the body, and otbers with event
more remarkable peculiarities, so that it in
not strange that there should be individuals
to whom tobacco i3 more or less poisonous.
Such instances, however, are rare, and do
do not conflict with the foregoing statement.
I can see, therefore, no very great reason
why, if a person desires, or thinks he de
sires mental or physical consolation or bene
fit, he should not indulge himself in tbe
moderate use of cigars in the manner that I,
have mentioned.
TWO DELETERIOUS EPPECTS.
But should he pass the proper limits, he
makes himself liable to the occurrence of
one or more serious physical disorders, any
one of which will certainly entail great
suffering upon him. Thus neuralgia, may
harass him by day and by night, aud es
pecially when he has exposed himself to in
clement weather, or been subject to mental
anxiety, or other emotional disturbances.
Again he may suffer from derang-ment of
the eyesight, consequent upon inflammation
of the optic nerves, "tobacco amaurosis," as
it is sometimes called. For a long time
oculists differed in regard to the existence
of such a disease, and I was among the
doubters, but I believe there is now no
difference ot opinion among those who make
a specialty of diseases of the eye, and I
have for several years been convinced from:
actual experience of tbe reality of inflam
mation of the optic nerves caused by tbe ex
cessive use of tobacco, several cases of the
kind having come under my own immediate
observation. In all of these, as soon as the
victims ceased to smoke the optic nerves be
gan to assume a healthy appearance, the?
vision to improve, and eventually the sight
to be entirely restored. In one case the use
of tobacco was resumed, and shortly after
ward the vision again began to fail, to be av
second time restored on the patient entering;
upon a course oi enure aosunence.
The influence of tobacco upon the heart U
frequently more strongly marked than in
any other direction. There are few persons
who use this substance to excess who do -not
sutler from the disordered action of the or
gan in question. The impulse is rendered
weaker and more irregular. So that faint
ness, intermittent pulse and palpitation,
are induced. I am very sure, from my own.
experience, that many young persons lar
the Beeds of organic disease of the heart:
from tbe excessive use of tobacco, or fro mi
beginning it too early in life. It not only
lessens the nervous influence by which the
heart is kept in action, but it causes a de
terioration of the organic muscular fibersjof
which the organ is composed. "Weak
heart" and "heart failure," so commonly
metwith in our day, are, I have no doubt,,
very often the direct consequence of the'
abuse of tobacco.
The use of tobacco by minors should b
absolutely prohibited.net by laws which are:
impossible of enforcement, and which en
cumber tbe statute books, but by home in.
fluence and command. It is very certain
that no young person can use this substance,
even in moderation, without suffering more
or less severely at the time, and laying up
for himself future troubles of even more se
rious import William A. Hammond.
New York, November 14.
TJHCXE SAK'S S0LDDZ3S.
They Are Better Housed, Fed and PaldThu
Any Others in the World.
New York Press.
Cruelties, injustice and tyranny are to ba
found in every army, as they are in every
public school and every public department.
But these grow rapidly less noticeable from
year to year, audit is well nigh impossibla
for serious injustice to be done anyone in the
army to-day without prompt detection and
immediate punishment.
This is 'certain, the United States recruit
is to-day far better fed, better clothed, bet-'
ter bedded and a great deal better paid than
any other soldier in tbe world. Does he
ever think that his pay and allowances ara
as much, if not more, than those ot a Junior
lieutenant in the crack regiments of Austria
or cf Denmark mighty iwalli t&eugb
tbos-lw?